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21) Gathering prey
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes-they just like to stay on the move. And now somebody is killing them. Lucas Davenport's adopted daughter, Letty, is home from college when she gets a phone call from a woman Traveler she'd befriended in San Francisco. The woman thinks somebody's killing her friends, she's afraid she knows who it is, and now her male companion has gone missing. She's hiding out...
22) The Russian
Author
Series
Detective Michael Bennett thriller volume 13
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Investigating a trio of horrifying murders in three major U.S. cities against a backdrop of his impending nuptials, Detective Michael Bennett risks getting caught in a deadly trap set by a particularly elusive killer.
23) The dark hours
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Hollywood, New Year's Eve. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD Detective Renée Ballard seeks shelter at the end of the countdown to wait out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the air. She is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party, and is quick to determine that the deadly bullet could not have fallen from the sky. Ballard's...
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 25
Language
English
Description
Alex Cross is on the wrong side of the law. Serving a suspension from the force while he awaits trial for murder, Cross has been branded as a trigger-happy cop, another bad apple walking the streets with a gun. To make himself feel useful again, Cross opens a counselling office in the basement of his home. When his former partner, Sampson, shows up needing his help, Cross jumps at the chance, even if it may end up costing him what's left of his career....
Author
Series
Santero and Rein volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Rookie cop Carrie Santero has always been fascinated by serial killers-- until she came face to face with a child murderer in her small Pennsylvania town, an encounter that haunts her to this day. As a detective in training she finally has her chance to make a difference: to hunt down a psychopathic sadist who embodies the very nature of evil itself. As the body count rises, Carrie and her boss, Chief Bill Waylon, realize they're dealing with an unpredictable...
26) The hangman
Author
Series
Forgotten files volume 3
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Julia Vargas is a cop with a mission. When she's not chasing down bad guys, Julia dedicates her time to investigating the Hangman serial killer... the same unsolved case that her father, Jim Vargas, was working on when he supposedly shot and killed himself three decades before. While rumors continue to swirl around her father's death, Julia attempts to hunt down the truth. The case once again hits dangerously close, however, when a woman's bones...
27) Dead silence
Author
Series
Foundlings volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Staring into his frightened blue eyes, investigative genealogist Amelia Crenshaw Haines vows to help this silent little boy who is unable—or unwilling—to communicate his past. Though her own roots remain shrouded in mystery, she relies on tangible DNA evidence to help fellow foundlings uncover theirs . . . until a remarkable twist of fate presents a stranger bearing an eerily familiar childhood souvenir. NYPD Missing Persons Detective Stockton...
28) Eeny meeny
Author
Series
Helen Grace volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two people are abducted, imprisoned, and left with a gun. As hunger and thirst set in, only one walks away alive. It’s a game more twisted than any Detective Helen Grace has ever seen. If she hadn’t spoken with the shattered survivors herself, she almost wouldn’t believe them. Helen is familiar with the dark sides of human nature, including her own, but this case—with its seemingly random victims—has her baffled. But as more people go missing,...
29) Dark in death
Author
Series
In death volume 46
Language
English
Description
"It was a stab in the dark. On a chilly February night, during a screening of Psycho in midtown, someone sunk an ice pick into the back of Chanel Rylan's neck, then disappeared quietly into the crowds of drunks and tourists in Times Square. To Chanel's best friend, who had just slipped out of the theater for a moment to take a call, it felt as unreal as the ancient black-and-white movie up on the screen. But Chanel's blood ran red, and her death was...
Author
Series
Max Wolfe volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Max Wolfe is back--the two-fisted homicide detective with a small daughter and dog waiting for him at home, and a crazed serial killer waiting for him somewhere our in the pitiless London streets. --Provided by publisher.
31) Fair warning
Author
Series
Jack McEvoy volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a particularly brutal way, McEvoy realizes he might be facing a criminal mind unlike any he's ever encountered. McEvoy investigates--against the warnings of the police and his own editor--and makes a shocking discovery that connects the crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. But his inquiry hits a snag when he himself...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When an Austrian nobleman offers a substantial donation to the University of Oxford, Charles Maddox is called on to investigate the generous benefactor. It is a decidedly mundane task for the increasingly renowned criminal investigator, but Maddox welcomes the chance to trade London's teeming streets for the comforts of a castle in the Viennese countryside. Comfort, however, is in short supply once Maddox steps onto foreign soil and into the company...
33) Irene
Author
Series
Commandant Camille Verhoeven volume 2
Publisher
MaLehose Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
For Commandant Verhoeven life is beautiful: he's happily married, and expecting his first child with the lovely Irene. But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder so savage that even the most hardened officers on the force are shaken to the core. In the face of the seemingly motiveless horror, only Verhoeven makes the vital connection - the crime scene resembles one described in a James Ellroy novel too closely for there to be any coincidence....
34) The silenced
Author
Series
Krewe of hunters volume 15
Language
English
Description
When a congressman's media assistant abruptly quits her job and goes missing on the way home, FBI agent Meg Murray teams up with special agent Matt Bosworth to investigate a serial killer with ties to a political conspiracy.
Author
Series
Boogeyman volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A tale of obsession and the adulation of evil, exploring modern society s true-crime obsession with unflinching honesty, sparing no one from the glare of the spotlight. Will those involved walk away from the story of a lifetime in order to keep their loved ones safe? Or will they once again be drawn into a killer s web? As the story draws to its shattering conclusion, only one person holds all the answers—and he just may be the most terrifying monster...
Author
Series
Pendergast volume 18
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's New York field office, A. X. L. Pendergast is abruptly forced to accept an unthinkable condition of continued employment: the famously rogue agent must now work with a partner. Pendergast and his new teammate, junior agent Coldmoon, are assigned to Miami Beach, where a rash of killings by a bloodthirsty psychopath are distinguished by a confounding M.O.: cutting out the hearts of his victims and leaving...
37) Don't say a word
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the brutal murder of a Chattanooga judge, homicide detective Julia Cass, shocked by this recent killing, teams up with FBI agent Will Brannock to stop a killer who is mutilating his victims and leaving behind a gruesome souvenir.
38) The naturalist
Author
Series
Naturalist volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Professor Theo Cray is trained to see patterns where others see chaos. So when mutilated bodies found deep in the Montana woods leave the cops searching blindly for clues, Theo sees something they missed. Something unnatural. Something only he can stop.
39) The Ursulina
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The mythical beast goes by many names. Bigfoot. Sasquatch. Yeti. In Black Wolf County, he's called...the Ursulina. But to Deputy Rebecca Colder, the beast is no myth. A serial killer has taken on the identity of the monster--and with each body left behind, there's a chilling message written in blood: I am the Ursulina." -- Inside front jacket flap.
40) Sanctuary
Author
Series
Jack Taylor volume 7
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Struggling with alcoholism and a close friend's health challenges, Jack Taylor initially disregards a strange letter that arrives containing the names of murder victims, until the subsequent addition of a child's name prompts Jack to search for a killer.
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